Instructor Dr. Cristina Carbone will be offering HP 672-201 "American Roadside Architecture," a new online course from May 24-July 2.

Christina Rieth, a student in the Department of Historic Preservation, has been selected as a 2019 Preservation Action Foundation Advocacy Scholar. She will participate in National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week, March 11-14 at the Kimpton Hotel Palomar in Washington, D.C.

Department of Historic Preservation Professor Doug Appler and Lauren Poole, an alum of the program, was recently featured in the Journal of Urban History.

Clyde Carpenter, a professor in the School of Architecture and the Department of Historic Preservation, is featured in the Winter 2019 issue of Preservation Matters, the publication by the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation.

On Friday, March 29, the Department of Historic Preservation will hold its annual symposium, titled "Historic Preservation and Sustainability: Beyond the Greenest Building."

Julie Riesenweber, assistant professor in the Department of Historic Preservation, recently helped Pope Villa in Lexington achieve its place on the National Register of Historic Places as a nationally significant example of early national-era architecture.

Congratulations go out to Historic Preservation Assistant Professor Doug Appler for earning a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for his project “Reassessing the History of Urban Renewal in the United States, 1950–1975.”

To watch the lectures from this year's Historic Preservation Symposium, please visit the College of Design Facebook page.

Alan Ricks, co-founder of MASS Design Group, will give a talk titled "Justice is Beauty" on Friday, March 30 at 4 p.m. in Memorial Hall.

The 2018 Historic Preservation Symposium will be held Friday, March 30.

Darwin Stapleton, a historian of technology, science and medicine, will speak on the Benjamin H. Latrobe-designed Pope Villa and early 19th-century scientific inquiry. The event will take place at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 22 at the Thomas Hunt-Morgan House.

Join the UK College of Design and Blue Grass Trust on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 5:30 p.m. for a Pope Villa Seminar featuring School of Architecture alum Haviland Argo and School of Architecture Director Jeffrey Johnson for their seminar, "Now: Preservation & Architecture" at the Dr. Thomas H. Morgan House, 210 N. Broadway, in downtown Lexington.

Make plans to attend the Historic Preservation Spring 2018 Lecture Series, with events on Feb. 19, March 5, March 26 and April 9 in the Community Room at the Louisville Free Public Library.

Confederate statues and monuments have made local and national headlines as the country decides how to respond to the memorialization of confederate soldiers.

For 13 years now, students from the Department of Historic Preservation have attended the annual dry stone masonry workshop at Pine Mountain Settlement School in Eastern Kentucky.

Historic Preservation Professor Douglas Appler has recently co-authored the book, “Urban Archaeology, Municipal Government and Local Planning.”

Students at the University of Kentucky are currently wrapping up some of the first research collected on a mid-century neighborhood as part of the nation's first hybrid field school in historic preservation.

Congratulations go out to the Department of Historic Preservation in the College of Design

Additional partial tuition and housing fellowships available for the 2017 Kentucky Field School.

The new Kentucky Field School – a part of the Department of Historic Preservation in the College of Design – was recently awarded the Orlando Ridout V Fieldwork Fellowship.

Should we as a society work to preserve historic sites notorious for their connection to violence and conflict? That’s the essential question that will be discussed at a special conference this Friday at the University of Kentucky.

The University of Kentucky College of Design, Department of Historic Preservation is proud to offer the country’s first hybrid field school – HP 676 Field Methods in Heritage Conservation.